Sunday food prep. Made chimichurri for tonight, and chimichurri vinaigrette for my lunch salads. Then made a new batch of bread crumbs to go in the freezer. I only have to make bread crumbs about every 6 months but used up the last batch last night. Then made a nice lunch (salad, corn, & chicken).

This week’s menu (Saturday-Friday): SAT: Chicken with Basil Cream Sauce SUN: Steak with Chimichurri MON: Huli-Huli Chicken TUE: Takeout WED: Stromboli THU: Vadouvan Curry Chicken Tacos FRI: Sausages Happy 1-year anniversary to my “this week’s menu” posts. 🥂

My preference would be that he rots in prison for the rest of his life but if he keels over on live TV, that’d be fine too. Either way, all the money he’s grifted would be of no use to him.

Yeah so National Geographic wants me to “take a peek inside the extremely bizarre sex lives of anglerfish.” 🫢

Happy Cheese Night, everybody. Dinner tonight is Spinach & Artichoke Sheet Pan Lasagna, which includes 3 kinds of cheese. 🧀🧀🧀

how dare you, LOOK HOW DAPPER HE IS

Once again, I have successfully prepared dinner. Chicken and rice pilaf and a veggie. I’m so tired.

Dinner tonight is Greek Chicken Sandwiches. Chopped chicken breast cooked in a pan with onion, garlic, and spices (meal kit recipe). “Everything” sub rolls for the bread. HEB roasted red pepper hummus. Homemade tzatziki. Served with garlic-butter green beans.

Happy Spaghetterday, to all who celebrate. 🍝

New trail camera footage just dropped: a red-shouldered hawk!

This week’s menu (Saturday-Friday): SAT: Spaghetti with Meat Sauce SUN: Greek Chicken Sandwiches MON: Ranch Roasted Chicken TUE: Takeout WED: Spinach & Artichoke Sheet Pan Lasagna THU: Beef & Pork Tacos FRI: Potstickers Choice of beef or pork on taco night. 🌮🌮

Checked the trail cam again: an armadillo! (Video is cropped.)

New trail camera footage just dropped. Opossum! (Video is cropped.) Also got footage of raccoons, grey foxes, and a ringtail.

“What’re you doin’?” is the standard greeting in my household. An actual explanation of what you’re doing is usually not required or expected, you can just respond with your own “What’re you doin’?”

I would like a neighborhood ice cream truck but for adults that comes around at like 6:00ish and serves fantastic cocktails inspired by all of the original ice cream truck treats

this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.

We went on a Mother’s Day hike on a little hiking trail in town and it’s very pretty there, and there were lots of birds singing, and there’s even a waterfall.

This week’s menu (Saturday-Friday): SAT: Italian Sausage & Linguine SUN: Thai Takeout MON: Chermoula Roasted Chicken TUE: Takeout WED: French Bread Pizzas THU: Pork Dumpling Tacos FRI: Crispy Coconut Chicken

I set up the trail camera in a different location a little closer to the woods and in less than 24 hours it got video of all the things: a tree squirrel, a rock squirrel, a raccoon, a ringtail, and two grey foxes. 🙀

Time to clean out the spice bin. It’s overflowing with little baggies of spices (I buy them in the bulk section, hence the little baggies, and do not have the time to clean and refill spice bottles instead of using baggies). At least half are too old. I’ll dump all of the old spices in the compost.

I have a lot of options on my list of what-to-cook-for-dinner and what happened was I just started out with a (short) list of what I already knew how to make, and then occasionally I’d try something new and if it was good I’d add it to the list of options. The meal kit service helped a lot too.

This week’s menu (Saturday-Friday): SAT: Chicken Diane SUN: Chinese Meatballs MON: Tomato Basil Chicken TUE: Takeout WED: Manicotti THU: Skirt Steak Fajitas FRI: Diner Style Chicken & Gravy No new recipes this week, but I think it’s only the second time I’ll have made manicotti (it’s so good). 👩‍🍳

Ooooo I know! Let’s get AI to do all the fucking presentations. That’s the shitty job that I’d like AI to do for me. And everybody else could use AI to listen to the presentations for them LOL.

Heyyyyy babyyy *jazz hands*

“AI agents may soon shop for you–the race is on to keep them from going rogue with your credit cards.” What? Here’s an idea: let’s just not allow that. #AIsucks

Checked the trail cam to see if anything new came by. A grey fox this time! So the trail cam has gotten video of a raccoon, a ringtail, and a grey fox. And a squirrel. All of them likely attracted by the bird feeder (but I bring it in at night now).

This week’s menu (Saturday-Friday): SAT: Chicken Cacciatore SUN: Pot Roast with Potatoes & Carrots MON: BBQ Chicken TUE: Takeout WED: Tortellini with Sausage & Tomatoes THU: Chicken Fajitas FRI: Bibimbap One new recipe: Tortellini with Sausage & Tomatoes, for Cheese Night. 🧀

When you come home from work after a shitty day, and you're greeted like this . 😍

Welp, I guess all I can do is sit back and watch the dumpster fire burn. I voiced my concerns but they’re determined to stay the course. This has been attempted before and it didn’t work out. But it wasn’t my fault then and it won’t be my fault this time either. 🍿

So apparently they think that someone could take their years of experience and accumulated specialist knowledge and somehow reduce it all to step-by-step instructions in a process document. For a team that wouldn’t take on a very basic task until they were given simple steps with screenshots.

Sunday food prep. Made green goddess salad dressing for tomorrow night’s roasted chicken and potato salad. And there’s plenty for my lunch salad too. It’s super good.

This week’s menu (Saturday-Friday): SAT: Chicken & Veggie Stir Fry SUN: Thai Takeout MON: Green Goddess Roasted Chicken TUE: Takeout WED: Chili Con Queso THU: Beef Tacos FRI: Roasted Pork I know that chili con queso isn’t usually a main dish, but it’s for Cheese Night 🧀 (and it has meat in it).

Look, not everybody needs to be a strawberry, okay? There's room for cranberries in this world too. You can be weird and sour and only tolerated by a handful of people around the holidays. I know you can. You can be fun if mixed with enough vodka. I believe in you. You can live in a bog

Ok so I got a $30 trail cam to see what’s been emptying the bird feeders at night, thinking that maybe it could be a ringtail. The first night, a raccoon showed up and checked the (empty) feeder. But I left the trail cam up and last night a ringtail came by too! landmarkwildlife.com/the-ringtail...

Yeah, I mean, if the screen recording could actually show you trying to do the thing you’re saying you can’t do, that would be super great.

Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto https://theonion.com/man-who-threw-molotov-cocktail-at-sam-altmans-home-claims-he-was-following-chatgpt-recipe-for-risotto/

Alrighty I’m trying out a new breakfast: Greek yogurt with fruit & multi-grain granola. Protein, calcium, fiber, etc. Fast & easy. Plain Greek yogurt because it’s definitely not ultra-processed (and anyway I hate all of the non-sugar sweeteners). Fruit & granola to make it interesting and add fiber.

Sunday food prep. Made chimichurri for tonight, the satay marinade and peanut sauce for tomorrow’s Thai roasted chicken, and ginger vinaigrette for tomorrow’s ginger slaw. Tomorrow’s dinner will be relatively easy because everything is ready to go.

This week’s menu (Saturday-Friday): SAT: Chicken & Basil Cream Sauce SUN: Steak with Chimichurri MON: Thai Roasted Chicken TUE: Takeout WED: Ravioli Lasagna THU: Vadouvan Curry Chicken Tacos FRI: Sausages One new thing: Vadouvan Curry Chicken Tacos, with typical taco fixin’s. 🌮

Lately when I’m planning the next week’s menu, I have themes (sort of) and lists of options for each day but I haven’t come up with a set rotation, I mostly just scroll through previous menus and try to pick stuff I haven’t made in awhile (except taco night, which has a set rotation of 6 options).

My bird feeder with the camera in it has been up for a couple of weeks now and I mostly only get cardinals (and sometimes a squirrel, the little fucker) but the cardinals are really cute because they’re couples and the males will often chirp chirp and then feed seeds to their little lady friends.

Wanna see an asshole bird?

This is Brandy. She practices self-care by dissociating in the bathtub. 13/10 honestly no notes (TT: monkeyshinekennel)

I haven’t eaten protein bars in a long time and maybe they’re different now but I remember them being really great if you love to fart all day.

Sunday food prep. Made salad dressing for my lunch salads, and mole sauce for tomorrow’s roasted chicken. I use this “20-Minute Mole Sauce” recipe (with a couple minor changes) and I know legit mole is supposed to take hours to make but it really is quite good. www.gimmesomeoven.com/holy-mole-sa...

when the time comes will CBS interrupt its regularly scheduled programming and begin playing the Village People's YMCA on a seemingly endless loop?

This week’s menu (Saturday-Friday): SAT: Spaghetti with Meat Sauce SUN: Greek Chicken Pitas MON: Mole Roasted Chicken TUE: Takeout WED: Penne with Pancetta & Mushrooms THU: Beef & Pork Tacos FRI: Pad See Ew Choice of beef and/or pork on taco night because we have some of both in the freezer. 🌮🌮

PSA: Don’t bother trying to go to the grocery store tomorrow. It’ll be closed for Bunny Day. 🐣🐰

Today’s working-from-home lunch is plantastic with a side of meat (for the protein). A big salad with Greek vinaigrette. An artichoke with melted butter for dipping. Steamed broccoli and cauliflower (had extra in the fridge). Corn on the cob. And pot roast from the freezer.

Happy Friday. I’m having chips & queso for breakfast. The queso has 20 grams of protein, and the chips are whole grain (corn is a grain, and the package says these chips are made with whole corn kernels). Woot!